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Wow learned something new today. What's interesting is that the decimal representation looks more like a phone number which people would be used to. Interesting that IP addresses as they are written today was the format that won, as a kid before learning how computers worked I always found it weird how 255 was the highest number in each group.

Its often challenging enough for people to do CIDR subnet calculations in their head when its broken out into octets. I'd have just given up on networking entirely if the standard was to use decimal notation.

You can even make it funnier by having it look like a floating point number: http://209.14214863/

Or a strange number with two decimal parts: http://209.216.59087/

My whole life I went without knowing decimal IPs were a thing..

There's more than just decimal .... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4...

A 32-bit number is a 32-bit number. Whether you represent it in dot notation, hex or decimal.